Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Future Looks Bright for Highlaud THE administration has worked long and hard and wound its way through a veritable maze of red tape in its efforts to provide us with a more modern and adequate educational institution. The School Board sent in the first application to the Federal Loan and Grant Board, under the public works allotment, in October. From that time on they have been busy answering questionnaires, filling out blanks, signing applications, and doing everything to forward the project as quickly as possible. Great was the rejoicing when we finally learned that Uncle Sam was going to help us gain our ambition, and when the final vote, taken on the project by the residents of the community, proved to be strongly affirmative. The modern structure, of two stories and basement, will be of Gothic style. It will be placed on the twelve lots on the corner of 27th and Indiana streets now held by the School Board on option. Entrance to the building will be at either the east or west end of the full- length corridor on the basement floor. Similar full-length corridors are pro- vided on each floor. There will be an auditorium with a total seating capacity of eight hundred or more, and a gymnasium with five hundred seating capacity, counting the balcony. In all, the new building will have fifteen class rooms and a study hall, in addition to the gymnasium, auditorium, office, and athletic rooms. Two new subjects will be added to the present school program, namely — manual training arid vocational agriculture. It is hoped that construction of the building will begin in the early summer, and that it will be completed for the second semester of the 1934-1935 school year.